Unit Theme: 21st Century Art Conceptual Lens: Influence Unit Length: 4-6 Weeks
Unit Overview
Designing a Museum to Display Art Work of the 21st Century:
Look around you. You are surrounded by it. From the construction of the building you are in, to the designs on your clothes, to the decorations on the walls, and the music on the radio. Art is all around you. Just like every experience you have ever had has brought you to this moment. So have events, scientific breakthroughs, media, and performable art influences the art around you. This semester you will be part of the creation of a museum containing exhibits dating from the time of your birth until right now. This museum will have the capabilities to exhibit pieces of work using media limited only by your imagination. It is your job to search through as many mediums as you can using your knowledge of Math, Science, Social Studies, and English to find the pieces of art that will be in your museum.
Students will understand that art effects our society through digital media, performance, and visual creations.
How has each art discipline, (visual, performing, literary, and multi-disciplinary) influenced the opinions and views of our society?
English
Mathematics
Science
Social Studies
Art
-Slam Poetry
-Poetry Writing
- Visual Performing Arts
(Performing interpretations of poetry and personal written poetry)
Unit Planner
Critical Content/Concept Web
Unit Theme: 21st Century ArtConceptual Lens: Influence
Unit Length: 4-6 Weeks
Unit Overview
Look around you. You are surrounded by it. From the construction of the building you are in, to the designs on your clothes, to the decorations on the walls, and the music on the radio. Art is all around you. Just like every experience you have ever had has brought you to this moment. So have events, scientific breakthroughs, media, and performable art influences the art around you. This semester you will be part of the creation of a museum containing exhibits dating from the time of your birth until right now. This museum will have the capabilities to exhibit pieces of work using media limited only by your imagination. It is your job to search through as many mediums as you can using your knowledge of Math, Science, Social Studies, and English to find the pieces of art that will be in your museum.
-Poetry Writing
- Visual Performing Arts
(Performing interpretations of poetry and personal written poetry)
-Multi-Media Usage
(fractions, ratio, geometry, area, perspective, etc.)
Fractals
(natural fractals - science)
Photography
(fractions, magnification, area, angles, etc.)
art of the 21st century.
-How illustrations, diagrams,
models, and animations
are used in Science.
-Different models that present
the same thing.
-Scientific method and design improvement
by Art Spiegelman)
-Political Cartoons (current events)
-Actual Photography
(Katrina, War on Terror, Earthquake in Haiti)
-Popular Music (related to current events)
History
Math
(4 periods)
8:10-11:25
(4 periods)
8:10-11:25
With switch halfway through
8:10-11:25
English
Science
Lydia Kinney
Marcy Cooper
Tracey Hollingsworth
Lincoln Robinson